Puerto Rico Governor Garcia Padilla signed legislation re-establishing the 6% sales and use tax rate, effective February 1, 2014. A reduction in the tax rate from 6% to 5.5% was originally approved to go into effect on December 1, 2013…

District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray has signed the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2013, reducing the sales tax rate and increasing the use tax rate on specified alcoholic beverages. Effective October 1, 2013, the sales…

Maine has enacted a temporary sales tax rate increase. Effective from October 1, 2013 to June 30, 2015, the state sales tax rate will increase from 5% to 5.5%. Additionally, during that period, the hotel room tax rate will increase…

Arkansas has implemented a temporary 0.5% increase in the state sales and use tax rate, effective July 1, 2013. The rate increase will be levied on all taxable sales except food and food ingredients, will be collected for approximately 10…

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed a bill that reduces the state-level sales and use tax rate from 6.3% to 6.15% effective July 1, 2013. The 0.15% rate reduction replaces the previously scheduled July 1 reduction in the rate to…

Arizona’s temporary increase in sales tax rates expires on May 31, 2013. The state’s current rate of 6.6% will decrease to 5.6% beginning June 1, 2013. The state’s current rate for transient lodging will decrease from 6.5% to 5.5%. The…

Effective July 1, 2013, Arkansas’s state sales and use tax rate will increase from 6% to 6.5%. Arkansas voters approved a constitutional amendment to levy the temporary rate increase at the November 6, 2012 general election in order to provide…

California’s sales and use tax rate will increase by 0.25%, from 7.25% to 7.5%, effective January 1, 2013, due to voter approval of Proposition 30. The increased tax rate is applicable from January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2016. Voters…

Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) and the Canadian government have signed an agreement stating that P.E.I. will implement the harmonized sales tax (HST) next year. The 14% HST is scheduled to take effect on April 1, 2013 and will replace the…

The Illinois Department of Revenue has posted on its website a database that provides rates for both state and local taxes. The database contains the rates for income, sales, excise, property, motor fuel, use, and gaming taxes as well as…

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